Ramblings: You can never have too much glitter {at least I don't think you can!}

Saturday, November 27, 2010

You can never have too much glitter {at least I don't think you can!}

Ok, as I said last night, I needed to trade in my glittered pumpkins for something a little more winter-ish. I got an amazing silver tray at HomeGoods last night, and I set off today DETERMINED to find faux fruit (specifically apples and pears) and silvery/green glitter. Off to Target I went. Unfortunately, they DID NOT have faux fruit!! I was appalled... Target has everything... or so I thought. But I did happen to find some amazing sparkly candles. More on them later. So I consulted my trusty ole Joann Fabrics. Alas, she came through! I found my fake fruit and some nice ribbon.

In case you ever want to glitter something on your own, here are step by step instructions :) {I apologize ahead of time, there are LOTS of pictures!}

Here are the naked faux fruit from Joann's

Ok, you need to have some Tacky Glue. Pour some (about 4 tbsp) in a bowl you don't care about and add some water (about 3 tsp). Mix it all up until is looks like......

this!

Then start painting whatever you're glittering. This part sucks, but it pays off to take your time and make sure you get everything.

You're going to do each piece one at a time. I recommend using one paper plate per glittery item, so you can dump all the extra glitter back into the right container and you don't have one big mess of colors.

I keep each glitter container with the correct item so I don't mix them up :)

*This is a side note* I wanted my three candles to be staggered in size, but two were the same height, so I stuck, oh about a million, small furniture pucks to build up its height.

See! Now they are all perfect :)

Because I used furniture pucks to build up the one candle, I covered the bases of all the candles with some ribbon. This covered my sneaky build-up trick and made them look pretty :)